Extra Chapter 4

  Extra Chapter 4

  Gu Xiang was still quite surprised when he saw Chai Zi Yu.

  Seeing her turn back to look at him, Chai Zi Yu didn't care about her and slowly overtook her, walking ahead.

  Gu Xiang couldn't understand how someone who had transferred schools and left for over a year could change so much.

  If it weren't for his current appearance being only a bit more mature without much change, Gu Xiang would have suspected that she had mistaken him for someone else with the same name.

  Because she had taken a detour, the class break was almost over. Gu Xiang walked back and forth once, warming herself up, then directly returned to her classroom.

  Du Qinyue and Jiao Shanshan also returned, gathering together to discuss something, and coincidentally brought milk tea for Gu Xiang.

  "What's going on?" Gu Xiang covered her milk tea and walked over to ask.

  Jiao Shan said in a low voice, standing on tiptoes and whispering into her ear: "You know that transfer student in our class? I just saw him smoking at the small grocery store near school. You didn't know, did you? Our school just installed infrared cameras around there, supposedly to prevent accidents, but actually to catch students who break the rules... I wonder if he'll get caught."

  Jiao Shanshan as the king of rumors, Gu Xiang sometimes feels that even the gatekeeper Wang Dajie's family members, their land, she all knows.

  Since she said so, the news should be true.

  Gu Xiang thought about whether or not to remind Chai Zi Yu, but thinking of the other's indifferent attitude, she was also afraid that if she went over and said something, the other would think she was meddling in their business.

  Two days passed like this, and one day, Mr. Gu suddenly called over Gu Xiang.

  After Gu Xiang left, Teacher Gu was hesitant and unsure of how to start the conversation, sometimes holding his tea cup and sometimes picking up the test paper.

  Gu Xiang as class monitor, runs to his place every day, and has a better relationship with him than the average teacher-student relationship.

  After some hesitation, Mr. Gu finally spoke up and said: "This... what's your relationship with Chai Zi Yu?"

  Thinking that Teacher Gu might have to speak for himself again, Gu Xiang said: "We were in the same class in junior high school, but he transferred schools later, so our relationship is just average now."

  Teacher Gu listened to her finish speaking and asked: "There are surveillance cameras installed near the small road by the playground, what about this one? It captured you guys walking around the playground together a few days ago..."

  Gu Xiang was stunned. The two of them were indeed talking, and they did go back to the classroom one after the other, and in between, she deliberately stopped... If you look at the video, it's quite ambiguous...

  Mr. Gu continued, "That camera is not in a particularly dark place, just past the streetlight. The school installed it mainly to catch early romance. Of course, I still trust you, but you should be more careful in the future..."

  Gu Xiang returned to the classroom in a daze after listening to Mr. Gu's serious and heartfelt advice, and soon saw Chai Zi Yu being called out.

  Making such a mistake, Mr. Gu didn't even ask her to explain and said he believed her, but it's unclear whether he really did or just gave the class monitor face. Not long after, Chai Zi Yu also came over, and the two of them exchanged an awkward glance.

  The camera was just installed for a few days, and the school did not notify everyone, it was just to catch the typical ones.

  Gu Xiang and Chai Zi Yu were exempted because of Mr. Gu's strong guarantee.

  There were two other pairs of students who didn't have good luck, and another group of people who dragged a classmate in to fight, all of whom were publicly criticized and notified their parents at the school assembly on Monday.

  But not handling it doesn't mean nobody knows, and there are many students who help the administration with errands. One of them is Chai Zi Yu, a very popular student in school, so within two days, their sneaky strolls around the playground had spread everywhere.

  Jiao Shanshan was among the first to know and immediately dragged Gu Xiang into the bathroom for severe interrogation.

  Gu Xiang had a bitter expression that she couldn't verbalize, and after a round of explanations, all she got in return were profound and meaningful glances from Jiao Shan Shan and Du Qin Yue.

  Who says bookworms don't gossip? When bookworms start gossiping, it's terrifying.

  Xia Zi had been in the same class as Gu Xiang for a month and they only exchanged a few words.

  Later on, for some reason, everyone in Class 1 just assumed they were a couple.

  Girls from other classes also looked down on Gu Xiang, thinking she wasn't worthy of Chai Zi Yu.

  However, Class 1 still maintains a good relationship with their class monitor. If anyone speaks ill of her outside the classroom, they will be rebuffed in no uncertain terms.

  Plus she herself has good grades and looks good, so after a long time everyone got used to it.

  Later, in two small exams, Chai Zi Yu still ranked first, while Gu Xiang was among the top three to five.

  Teacher Gu didn't say anything else to them after that.

  Before the final exam, the school also held a large parents' meeting to finalize the students' subject choices.

  Her mother wanted to come, but it was too much trouble for her to travel back and forth from the city to home. The school ended classes two hours early and asked parents to attend a parent-teacher conference, which lasted less than two hours in total. Her commute time alone took longer than that.

  Father Gu also wanted to come, but he really had no time, his schedule was full. His business has grown bigger now, and recently he's been busy making a bid plan for a batch of export porcelain.

  When the parent-teacher conference notice came down, Mr. Gu's father was in a neighboring province.

  Gu Xiang thought it was a big deal and said they didn't need to come with her, she could go by herself.

  She told Teacher Gu about it, and Teacher Gu thought it was okay. Anyway, when the time comes, parents will find their own seats in the grand auditorium, so having multiple students sitting together won't be conspicuous.

  The content of the speech is roughly the same as what Gu Xiang thought, which includes the principal speaking, the grade director speaking, and the class leader making a speech. The content of the speech aims to fully explain the importance of elective courses.

  To Gu Xiang, it was all old news.

  But actually what they said is also correct, choosing a major, mainly depends on what you want to do in the future, not just looking at current grades.

  Starting from Gu Xiang's generation, liberal arts students must take history, science students must take physics. Liberal arts have history and politics, history and life, history and geography. Science has material chemistry, material life, and material geography, with three options for each.

  The two elective courses are divided into grades in proportion. The top 5% to 5% is grade A; 5% to 20% is grade A; 20% to 30% is grade B; 30% to 50% is grade B; 50% to 90% is grade C.

  Ordinary undergraduate programs above second-tier universities require both subjects to reach B level, which is the top 50 among all provincial examinees. Higher first-tier universities require one or two A's.

  For example, if you want to study medicine, it's best to choose a biology course, and since most colleges' western medicine majors only recruit science students, choosing physics and biology is the best combination.

  After attending a parent-teacher conference, Gu Xiang also had some doubts.

  She originally wanted to choose history, and she had a good grasp of it. If she was willing to put in the effort, she wouldn't do too badly.

  Biology is also of interest to her, and she thinks it's not very difficult. There are parts that require memorization and calculation, but overall, it's a subject where spending time can improve grades.

  As for physics... I thought it was easy in the first year of high school, but I heard that after the division of subjects, the difficulty will increase exponentially...

  After the meeting, Mr. Gu took advantage of the hot iron and called over Gu Xiang to ask for her thoughts.

  Gu Xiang hesitated at this time.

  Teacher Gu took a look and saw an opportunity, so he started telling him about the ease of science classes. As long as you can do the questions, that's all that matters, and you can sleep after self-study every night. Unlike liberal arts classes, where you'd write a whole exam paper and the ink in your pen would run out by half... Moreover, science students have an easier time choosing majors later on, with about half of them being able to switch to liberal arts, and all science students are eligible to take the exams...

  Made Gu Xiang even more confused.

  The parents had mostly dispersed by then, and Principal Gu specially pulled Gu Xiang into another office to talk, also fearing that after the meeting, the parents would all swarm over to find him.

  Gu Xiang was still dazed and went to a small stall next to the school to buy a pancake to eat.

  Her parents must still be following her ideas, but now she herself doesn't know either.

  Standing beside the pancake stall, lost in thought, I didn't even notice when someone cut in front of me. When I looked up, all I saw was a broad back right in front of me, with the school uniform just a few centimeters from my nose.

  Gu Xiang unhappily poked the boy in front of her with her hand, and he turned his head, raising an eyebrow to ask her: "What's wrong?"

  It's not someone else, it's just Chai Zi Yu.

  There was another person in front of Shibata Zuiryō, and it would soon be his turn.

  Gu Xiang leaned forward and said, "How can you cut in line?"

  Chai Zi raised an eyebrow and shrugged, "You're standing there motionless, I thought you were here specifically to smell the aroma."

  Made Gu Xiang both angry and amused as she stared at him straight.

  The Jianbing stall has always been very popular, especially since the Jianbing can be filled with braised meat made by the boss himself, and sales are extremely good.

  Gu Xiang looked at the pot of braised meat and feared that once she started eating, it would be all gone.

  The person in front of Chai Zi Yu Qian is not a student, but an employee from a nearby store. He bought five pancakes by himself.

  Gu Xiang was anxious to death as she peeked around from behind.

  That person bought it after finishing, Chai Zi Yu didn't want braised meat, and put in ham instead.

  Gu Xiang happily bought a braised meat pancake, because there were only some small pieces of meat left in the pot, so the boss simply scooped them all up for her, and the pancake was full of meat.

  She took it with a smile and turned around to see Chai Zi Yu still standing not far away, looking at her with an unbearable gaze.

  Gu Xiang's face turned red, and she carefully tucked away her pancake before getting on the small electric vehicle.

  Chai Zi Yu was still standing by the side of the road. Gu Xiang drove up to him and asked, "It's so late, why aren't you leaving?"

  Chai Zi carelessly nibbled on a pancake, "Forgot to tell family that school let out early today."

  Gu Xiang let out an "oh" and thought to herself that good-looking people can even make eating a pancake on the side of the road look stylish, then said goodbye and started the car. Just as she was about to drive away, she felt a tug on the back of her neck and quickly stopped the car to turn around, only to see Chai Zi Yu holding onto her collar from behind.